Top 70 Not Succeeding Quotes
#1. There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built, the life lessons that are taught in the process of playing a game and the ability to overcome not succeeding all of the time and still considering yourself a success.
JohnA Passaro
#2. If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.
Ingrid Weir
#3. And, of course, this time, there was no question of him not succeeding - he intended to get his ring on her finger no matter how long it took. This
Stephanie Laurens
#4. Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'
Astro Teller
#5. If you create great content, huzzah. But if it doesn't move anywhere, you're not succeeding.
Mark Schaefer
#6. Until everyone is free, the experiment of America is not succeeding. We all
want opportunity.
Bryan Batt
#9. There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon
#10. Shapers" are independent thinkers: curious, non-conforming, and rebellious. They practice brutal, nonhierarchical honesty. And they act in the face of risk, because their fear of not succeeding exceeds their fear of failing.
Adam M. Grant
#11. It is essential that we develop a learning space where failure is positive, as it is a catalyst for growth and change. Students need to recognize that taking a risk and not succeeding does not mean they are failing: It means they need to try another way. After
Starr Sackstein
#12. You're afraid. You're afraid of trying and not succeeding. What's the worst thing that happens if you apply and don't get it? -Scott
Michele Jaffe
#13. I believe that giving up is a bigger failure than not succeeding at something
Pennie Murray
#14. I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#15. I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
Walter Isaacson
#16. If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.
Sarah Silverman
#17. The worst way to fire somebody is to let it drag out. It's not good for that person because they're not succeeding in their role. And it's not good for the organization because it's just not working.
Nick Woodman
#18. Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding
Sara Blakely
#19. The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!
Craig Benzine
#20. Writers who don't produce copy - or leave it so long that they couldn't possibly produce something good - are giving themselves the perfect excuse for not succeeding.
Megan McArdle
#21. Just because you cannot see it now, does not mean it is not there or not possible. See yourself succeeding and own that vision through all your planning and hard work.
Archibald Marwizi
#22. If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.
Thomas Paine
#23. If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.
Thomas Paine
#24. Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
Michael Eisner
#25. Logan couldn't help the slight twitch of his lips at the last comment. "I'm not trying to piss you off." "Well, congratulations. You're succeeding anyway.
Ella Frank
#26. A hero, in his mind, was not someone who suffered disaster after disaster, heroically pulling through with great endurance, but rather one who focused his intelligence and skills to avoid disaster, thus succeeding by good planning and crafty decision making.
Stephen R. Bown
#27. It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.
Josh Billings
#28. It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim
#29. My sense of humor doesn't translate well into print, some of the things I say can be offensive or found offensive even though I don't mean them that way. So I have been told to try and censor myself here and there. I'm trying, but I'm not really succeeding at it.
Megan Fox
#30. I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the value of succeeding at school, the value of merit and respect for work. To me these are not incompatible with being of the left.
Segolene Royal
#31. If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
Carl Levin
#32. If you don't believe in your product, or if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#33. Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
Francis Chan
#34. This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
Ban Ki-moon
#35. Books are the best type of influence of the past ... Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
Larry David
#37. One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
Warren Farrell
#38. I have all these things I want to do, but I don't have to do them right away. Because it's not just about winning, it's about succeeding, which to me are two different things.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#39. Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.
Karl Marx
#40. If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.
Gordon Brown
#41. I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.
Theresa May
#42. If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.
Marilynne Robinson
#43. Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.
Flann O'Brien
#44. Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be failure but of succeeding at things that don't really matter.
Francis Chan
#45. Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.
Charlton Laird
#46. One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.
George S. Clason
#47. Enough, both of you,' Clary said. 'You can't be complete jerks to each other forever, you know.'
Technically,' said Simon, 'I can.'
Jace made an inelegant noise; after a moment Clary realized that he was trying not to laugh, and only semi-succeeding.
Cassandra Clare
#48. Be sure not to turn your life into a series of tasks which must always be performed... I know it can seem appealing to live in a state of accomplishing things, always succeeding, always getting things done. But consider this. A whole life lost. A sacrifice to your fragile sense of order.
Kevin Hooyman
#49. Failure so often hates the very sight of success. Speaking with successful men, I have noticed they speak in complimentary terms of other men who are succeeding. Their attitude is not one of envy, but of willingness to learn from others.
Napoleon Hill
#51. The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth ... celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.
Pierre De Coubertin
#52. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
#53. Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.
Eric Ries
#54. Most teenage suicide attempts are cries for help; the teens survive, succeeding in bringing them the wanted attention. Mine was not a cry for help. I wanted to end my life and my misery.
Sharon E. Rainey
#55. Ugh!" She threw her hands in the air. "No? No? That's your favorite word, isn't it?
"It's a classic," he told her calmly, his composure only succeeding in making her more irate. "So much simpler than, say, 'ain't gonna happen' or 'not a chance in hell.
Julie Ann Walker
#56. If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
#57. We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that's economical, that can succeed in the marketplace, any form of energy, we're all for. As a matter of fact, we're investing in quite a number of them, ourselves - whether that's ethanol, renewable fuel oil.
Charles Koch
#58. Succeeding in business is not just about making money.
Daniel Snyder
#59. Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance.
Archibald Marwizi
#60. I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly what I believe today, and I do not believe today exactly what I believed yesterday. I expect to make, as I have made, some honest progress within every succeeding twenty-four hours.
Andrew Jackson
#61. ...you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you are failing. It calms them. That's why the show Intervention is a hit and everyone loves "worrying about" Amanda Bynes.
Mindy Kaling
#62. Which is why you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them.
Mindy Kaling
#63. I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#64. Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past.
Debasish Mridha
#65. If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#66. I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.
Hillary Clinton
#67. There are two types of persons in the world. If you're not the majority, you're either dead or succeeding at something.
Robin Sacredfire
#68. Many of the wicked are receiving their wages now. Many Christians who may not be succeeding according to the world's standards now, will reap great rewards in heaven.
Billy Graham
#69. I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.
Cherie Blair
#70. Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.
Flann O'Brien
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